The Swedish Nightingale (film)
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Director Peter Paul Brauer Music director Franz Grothe Language German | 5.8/10 IMDb Genre Biography, Drama, Music Duration Country Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Writer Friedrich Forster-Burggraf , Henry Lemarchand , Per Schwenzen , Gert von Klas Release date 9 April 1941 Screenplay Per Schwenzen, Henry Lemarchand, Gert von Klas Cast Joachim Gottschalk (Hans Christian Andersen), Ilse Werner (Jenny Lind), Karl Ludwig Diehl (Staatsminister Graf Rantzau), Aribert Wäscher (Verleger Peer Upan), Hans Leibelt (Theaterdirektor), Volker von Collande (Olaf Larsson, Jennys Verlobter)Similar movies Hans Christian Andersen wrote the story for The Swedish Nightingale and The Snow Queen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Swedish Nightingale (German:Die schwedische Nachtigall) is a 1941 German musical film directed by Peter Paul Brauer and starring Ilse Werner, Karl Ludwig Diehl and Joachim Gottschalk. The film is based on a play by Friedrich Forster-Burggraf set in nineteenth century Copenhagen. It portrays a romance between the writer Hans Christian Andersen and the opera singer Jenny Lind the "Swedish Nightingale" of the title.
It is noteworthy that at the time when the film was made, Germany was keeping Denmark under military occupation but attempting a relatively conciliatory attitude towards the occupied Danes. Germany was also making an effort to keep good relations with the neutral Sweden. The theme of the film - made at a time when Joseph Goebbles' Propaganda Ministry kept tight control of the German film industry - obviously fit well with these policy aims.
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